Injunction

Colombia’s handling of preliminary injunctions in disputes over standard essential patents (SEPs) have attracted the scrutiny of the Andean Community. This blogpost revisits these developments from…

BackgroundWe previously set out the background and genesis of the proposed regulatory provisions of the "Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the Union Code…

In late September, the Mannheim Local Division of the Unified Patent Court (UPC) and Germany’s Munich Regional Court issued the world’s first “anti-interim license” injunction orders (AILIs). These…

Preliminary injunctions (“PIs”) matter in life sciences patent cases.  As often as not, the party which prevails at this stage of the litigation will have the upper hand in settlement negotiations. …

On 1 September 2025, Michael Tappin KC sitting as a Deputy Judge of the High Court handed down a judgment in favour of Bayer’s application to strike out Sandoz’s claim for an account of profits under…

Traditionally, patents are territorial rights: their effects are limited to the territory in which they take effect, and therefore any infringing acts are necessarily localised in that territory…

It has been a little over two years since the UPC issued its first order for provisional measures on 22 June 2023. The first year saw six preliminary injunctions (PIs) granted (two ex parte) out of…

In a recent decision by the Mannheim Local Division, the UPC granted the first-ever UPC injunction relating to the UK. This is a landmark decision following a number of preliminary judgments that…

Maybe not all readers of this blog will know that there once was a “North German Confederation” which existed from July 1867 to December 1870, after which it became part of the newly to-be-founded…